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Law & Disorder: 2 shot dead in Lake Shore area

Curtis Troy Newsome, 17, was originally charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by a delinquent in an August 2010 shooting. He was also charged with aggravated battery and robbery in a related case.

Blending Dewitt Hughes III, 47, of Ocie Street is charged with armed robbery, fleeing police, resisting an officer without violence and operating a vehicle with a suspended or revoked license, jail records show. Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012-05-01/story/mans-5th-arrest-year-atlantic-beach-wells-fargo-robbery#ixzz1tevQlPmr

Provided by Jacksonville Sheriff's Office The suspect in a bank robbery is described as a 5-foot-7 male with short blond hair. He may be the same suspect in another incident, but wore other clothes.

Responding to a shooting call about 8:45 p.m. at 4545 Colonial Ave., police said they heard sobbing and screaming in the house when they arrived. They found a man and a woman who had been wounded and a female was unharmed.

The victims later died at a hospital.

Police said the suspect was not in the house when they arrived.

Dana Treen

1 suspect in 2 bank robberiesPolice in Duval and St. Johns counties are investigating a similar bank robbery and robbery attempt that occurred Tuesday morning.

The first incident occurred at the Bank of America at 10455 San Jose Blvd. in Mandarin. Police said a man attempted to rob the bank about 10:15 a.m., but fled before he got any money.

The second incident occurred about 45 minutes later, when a man robbed the Wells Fargo bank at 2841 W. County Road 210 in St. Johns County. Authorities said the man displayed a note to bank employees. He was able to flee with an undisclosed amount of money.

Witnesses described the St. Johns robber as a white male, about 5-foot-7 with a blond crewcut and sunglasses.

He was wearing a gray T-shirt with red writing possibly saying “Lone Star.” The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has released a security photo of the thief.

A similar description was given the Jacksonville case, although the man had on a cap and a yellow-striped shirt.

About 9:15 a.m. a man walked into the bank and presented a teller a note demanding money. About a half-hour after fleeing, a suspect in a vehicle matching the description provided at the scene was spotted by patrol officers. After a short pursuit, the man tried to get away on foot but was captured, Atlantic Beach police spokeswoman Tiffany Layson said.

Blending Dewitt Hughes III, 47, of Ocie Street, is charged with armed robbery, fleeing police, resisting an officer without violence and operating a vehicle with a suspended or revoked license, jail records show.

Hughes was most recently released from jail Jan. 11 after serving 23 days for domestic battery. Since April 17, 2011, he’s had another charge of resisting an officer without violence, as well as charges of probation violation, disorderly intoxication, aggravated assault, and driving under the influence causing damage to a person or property.

Scott Butler

Deal cuts teen's jail term down to 15 yearsWith a jury waiting to begin his trial, a Jacksonville teen agreed to a plea deal Tuesday that upgraded one of his charges to attempted second-degree murder but as a result gave him less mandatory time in prison.

Curtis Troy Newsome, 17, was originally charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by a delinquent in an August 2010 shooting. He was also charged with aggravated battery and robbery in a related case.

Both cases were resolved in the plea deal that sentenced Newsome to a 20-year term in prison with 10 years mandatory on the attempted murder charge. He was also sentenced to 15 years on the three other charges, but all four sentences are now set to run concurrent.

Newsome had faced up to 35 years in prison with a mandatory minimum of 20 years based on sentencing requirements that come with the aggravated assault charge.

He was 15 years old when prosecutors said he beat up and robbed a man who owed him money over a drug debt. The victim sustained 13 fractures to his ribs.

A few days later, Newsome went to the victim's home, they said, where he threatened his brother, shooting a pistol into the air as a warning.